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[Pondus]

How internet started .... Old news but some may be interested

ARPANET    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

First contry connected outside US
www.paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-secret-project-to-turn-the-internet-into-an-anti-so-1724555107
www.norsar.no/norsar/about-us/History/Internet/

[polonus]

Thousands of WP sites hacked spreading malware: http://research.zscaler.com/2015/08/neutrino-campaign-leveraging-wordpress.html

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[polonus]

Ongoing security problem - public FTP servers: http://findex.cedsys.nl/research/mass-ftp-crawling/
link author: Sander Ferdinand

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[polonus]

Torrent Trackers ban Windows 10 clients: https://torrentfreak.com/torrent-trackers-ban-windows-10-over-privacy-concerns-150822/
Why? Read: http://lifehacker.com/what-windows-10s-privacy-nightmare-settings-actually-1722267229

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[bob3160]

Torrent Trackers ban Windows 10 clients: https://torrentfreak.com/torrent-trackers-ban-windows-10-over-privacy-concerns-150822/
Why? Read: http://lifehacker.com/what-windows-10s-privacy-nightmare-settings-actually-1722267229

polonus

Sorry Damien but your Why isn't correct.
Torrents are afraid of the fact that some of their cracked software might be spotted.

[Para-Noid]

A Week in Security (Aug 16 – Aug 22)

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/online-security/2015/08/a-week-in-security-aug-16-aug-22/

Phishing Tale: An Analysis of an Email Phishing Scam

https://blog.sucuri.net/2014/06/phishing-tale-an-analysis-of-an-email-phishing-scam.html?utm_campaign=Phishing%20Tale%3A%20An%20Analysis%20of%20an%20Email%20Phishing%20Scam%20Blogpost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=googleplus

Your Website Hacked but No Signs of Infection

https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/06/your-website-hacked-but-no-signs-of-infection.html?utm_campaign=Your%20Website%20Hacked%20but%20No%20Signs%20of%20Infection%20Blogpost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=googleplus

[polonus]

Thousands of sites with EV-SSL Certificates wrongly presented in Google Chrome:
see: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/08/24/thousands-short-changed-by-ev-certificates-that-dont-display-correctly-in-chrome.html

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[bob3160]

Thousands of sites with EV-SSL Certificates wrongly presented in Google Chrome:
see: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/08/24/thousands-short-changed-by-ev-certificates-that-dont-display-correctly-in-chrome.html

polonus

Interesting.
"Comodo is the CA most affected by the May 2015 policy update, with almost 6,000 EV certificates at risk if Google's new policy is applied from 1st Jan 2015.
Comodo has recently issued certificates with SCTs from too few independent logs: for example,
Comodo issued a certificate on 3rd August 2015 that is missing a non-Google SCT."

[Para-Noid]

Instagram Follower Booster Leads to SMS Browser Extension PUP

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/online-security/2015/08/instagram-follower-booster-leads-to-sms-browser-extension-pup/

[polonus]

Privacy worse than in fictional "1984": http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/24/we-need-geneva-convention-for-the-internet-says-new-un-privacy-chief
It almost seems that smartphones were created with data and privacy breach at mind, in these respects the technology is a total fail:
http://www.upenn.edu/computing/security/checklists/Top10/Top_10_Tips_for_Smartphones.php
As ad-monitoring and launching  came to ruin the last vestiges of privacy protection the end-user is left in the cold with a take-it or leaave-it situation. A great example was the banning of adblock apps by Google on their Android OS, a measure that also blocked the user from ways to protect against malvertising and this could be seen as a compromittal of user-security. Here we see a monopolistic versus end-user conflict, where the monopolist can no longer guarantee neither "any" privacy nor the end-user's security against malware. This is a sad situation.

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[polonus]

AT&T hotsports injects adware into your Wifi traffic.
This borders on malvertising practices, hotspot sprouting ads is highly controversial:
http://webpolicy.org/2015/08/25/att-hotspots-now-with-advertising-injection/
link article author =  Jonathan Mayer

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[bob3160]

AT&T hotsports injects adware into your Wifi traffic.
This borders on malvertising practices, hotspot sprouting ads is highly controversial:
http://webpolicy.org/2015/08/25/att-hotspots-now-with-advertising-injection/
link article author =  Jonathan Mayer

polonus

Is the hotspot Free Are there alternatives

[polonus]

If that is the way they want to enrich the user's experience, I would say no thank you.
With Open Wifi you'd get the normal ads, understandable, not additonals where you would not expect them to pop-up.,
and cannot you reckon on Google to block injected ads?
Well they started to kill the noisy ones now from their browser.

Another topic.
Some intern you would not like to hire for sure:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/15/technology/hacker-fireeye-intern/

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[bob3160]

If that is the way they want to enrich the user's experience, I would say no thank you.
With Open Wifi you'd get the normal ads, understandable, not additonals where you would not expect them to pop-up.,
and cannot you reckon on Google to block injected ads?
Well they started to kill the noisy ones now from their browser.

Another topic.
Some intern you would not like to hire for sure:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/15/technology/hacker-fireeye-intern/

polonus

Fire-eye did fire him.

[schmidthouse]

If that is the way they want to enrich the user's experience, I would say no thank you.
With Open Wifi you'd get the normal ads, understandable, not additonals where you would not expect them to pop-up.,
and cannot you reckon on Google to block injected ads?
Well they started to kill the noisy ones now from their browser.

Another topic.
Some intern you would not like to hire for sure:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/15/technology/hacker-fireeye-intern/

polonus

Fire-eye did fire him.

AND that exceptional talent/knowledge could have been put to honest use/  wrong choice.